Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's roundup of the most interesting toys we’ve seen this week. It’s a Guardians of the Galaxy blowout as we’ve got life-sized Groots, creepy plush Groots, and a fancy cassette player. But wait—there’s more, including a very swanky David Bowie figure and a very large Iron Man. Check it out!

For being an amateur Lego enthusiast, Jason Allemann, of JK Brickworks, has created some masterfully-engineered toys made from nothing but plastic bricks. However, his partner, Kristal Dubois, might have just outdone him with a flying bat sculpture featuring some amazingly articulated wings.

Kids love Halloween because they get to dress up, act like a monster, and be rewarded with free candy. Then you become an adult, and suddenly have to deal with little monsters demanding free sweets. Halloween is suddenly less fun, unless you build a Lego robot to deal with trick-or-treaters.

Easter is almost upon us which means it’s time to decorate some hard-boiled eggs for no apparent reason. To keep the mess to a minimum you can buy an Egg Bot machine that automates the process, but if you’ve already got a Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit at home, you can just build one yourself.

No one’s going to mistake this cartoony penguin for the real thing, but it’s the clever engineering by the Lego masters at JK Brickworks—not its realism—that makes this creation a must-see both inside and out.

With the exception of a few of the Creator, Technic and
Lego Movie sets, company suggested alternate models have all but disappeared from Lego instruction books. It may be best to use your imagination when making something new out of your existing bricks, but fans in the Lego community have started making…

They missed an opportunity with a joke about the MiniFigs Boson, but this Lego Particle Accelerator made by JK Brickworks actually accelerates an orange Lego soccer ball to an impressive 12.5 kph. Check out the details on Jason's Blog and I highly recommend watching the video.